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tkluge, some parts of my site are allready indexed on google. Will this effect th crawling process? I estimate I have around 500 links.

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Hi Sham!

No, this will not affect the crawling process. Google might eventually kick all already indexed pages out of the index (this seems to be a common problem of the current G Sitemaps beta program) - but I'm not shure if this will affect you.

Sitemaps will help you two ways. First your site will get indexed fairly quickly and second if there is a problem with your site they are going to let you know in the ERRORS section of the Sitemaps site. I have found little errors that no other tool could find and a clean sitemap mean better indexing and more traffic.

BUT - if your website does some gray/black-had stuff - you'll point Google to the problems and risk penalties. Also - if the content of your webpages are copied from somewhere (- this can also be on your own website) - Google will raise this as an duplicated content error and you'll get penalized, too.

So if you have a website that is well indexed with Google you should think twice if you should take that risk.

You get the statistics even when you don't submit a sitemaps file for your website - this is really recommended to do.

BUT - if your website does some gray/black-had stuff - you'll point Google to the problems and risk penalties. Also - if the content of your webpages are copied from somewhere (- this can also be on your own website) - Google will raise this as an duplicated content error and you'll get penalized, too.

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I would rather work with Google, play by the rules and use their technology to help me make better website and more money. I have not met anyone that tried to out smart Google and did not evenitally pay the price by being banned. The short time advantage is not worth the evential punishment.